FILMMAKERS

TODD WIDER AND JEDD WIDERDIRECTORS / PRODUCERS​For over sixteen years, Jedd and Todd Wider have produced numerous critically and commercially successful feature documentary films including Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Peabody Award winner for Best Documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, directed by Alex Gibney, Academy Award nominated King’s Point, the multiple Primetime Emmy Awarding and Peabody Award winner Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, directed by Alex Gibney, the Emmy Award nominated Semper Fi: Always Faithful, directed by Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon, the multiple Emmy Award nominated Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, directed by Alex Gibney, the Sundance favorite Kicking It, broadcast by ESPN, about the Homeless World Cup soccer tournament, the POV film A Dream in Doubt about the first post 9/11 revenge killing, Morgan Spurlock’s What Would Jesus Buy?, about our obsession with materialism and consumption, the critically acclaimed Beyond Conviction directed by Rachel Libert, about restorative justice and victim-offender mediation in the Pennsylvania prison system, broadcast on MSNBC, and Paul Cronin’s A Time to Stir about the Columbia University student uprisings in 1968.

Jedd and Todd Wider have also directed and produced the critically acclaimed God Knows Where I Am, which has won numerous awards, was widely distributed theatrically and was nationally broadcast by PBS, as well as festival favorites, To The Edge of the SkyandThe Winds of Downhill.

​In 2011, Todd Wider and Jedd Wider were each nominated by the Producers Guild of America for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures.

The Wider’s commitment to social justice through film has been and remains informed by their respective professional endeavors.

BRIAN ARIOTTICO-PRODUCER​Brian Ariotti is a documentary editor and producer whose film credits include “God Knows Where I Am” (2016), “The Home Front” (2015) “Madina’s Dream” (2014), “Delta Boys” (2012), and “Meru” (winner of the 2015 Sundance Audience Award). He began his career in 2007 as an intern for Nickelodeon, and has gone on to work for MTV, NBC, SCI-FI Channel, AMC, The Onion, Vogue, HGTV, The Food Network, Bravo, VH1, Logo, Overture Films, and National Geographic.

GERARDO PUGLIACINEMATOGRAPHER

Gerardo Puglia is an international cinematographer and active member of the International Cinematographers Guild since 1990. Beginning his career at Age 16, he has gone on to work as Director of Photography for myriad film and television entities, including BBC, PBS, CBS, National Geographic, RAI (Italian Television), Imagine Entertainment, and Warner Brothers. Puglia is the recipient of two Emmys and a Peabody, along with two qualified Academy Award entries. He is an Eastman Kodak Company preferred cinematographer, consulting in the testing and development of Kodak film products. His work has been featured in numerous industry periodicals, such as iCOM Magazine and INCamera.

KEIKO DEGUCHIEDITOR

Keiko Deguchi has edited numerous award winning documentary films including Jeremiah Zagar’s “In A Dream,” Linda Hattendorf’s “The Cats of Mirikitani,” Jason DaSilva’s “When I Walk,” and most recently, “Captivated – The Trials of Pamela Smart”, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO. The narrative films she has edited include Susan Seidelman’s “The Hot Flashes; Steven Shainberg’s Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus;” Jonathan Parker’s (Untitled), and Bette Gordon’s “Handsome Harry”, to name a few. She is the recipient of James Lyons Editing Award at Woodstock Film Festival in 2008.

PAUL CANTELONCOMPOSER

In 2005, Paul Cantelon began his venture into film with Liev Schreiber’s “Everything Is Illuminated.” He went on to score such films as the award winning “Diving Bell And The Butterfly” (2007), Sony Pictures’ “The Other Boleyn Girl” (2008), OliverStone’s “W.” (2008), “New York, I Love You” (2009), TonyGoldwyn’s “Conviction” (2010), “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel” (2011), “Woody Allen: A Documentary” (2012), Oscar Winner Geoffrey Fletcher’s upcomingrelease “Violet & Daisy,” and “Effie Gray,” the upcoming feature written by and starring Emma Thompson. Paul has also recently contributed original music to Jonathan Demme’s interpretation of Henrik Ibsen’s “The Master Builder,” entitled: “Fear Of Falling.”

LORI SINGERCELLO

Lori Singer is a Golden Globe winning actress who has starred in such films as Footloose, Robert Altman’s Short Cuts, The Falcon and the Snowman, The Man with One Red Shoe, Alan Rudolph’s Trouble in Mind and Equinox, and, most recently, Experimenter. She also starred in the television series Fame, and VR5. A graduate of Julliard and a musical prodigy, she is an accomplished cellist, performing with Yo Yo Ma in Atom Egoyan’s Bach Cello Suite No. 4: Sarabande.

ORLY SALIKRESEARCH ASSISTANT

Orly Salik is a member of the class of 2019 at Staples high school in Westport, CT. She is a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist, a member of four national honor societies, including Rho Kappa, the National Social Studies Honor Society. She has tutored homeless children in CT and is dedicated to spreading awareness about issues facing homeless people in the country.